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So I appear to be writing again.  Every night.  Weeeeee!  It feels really good.  The genesis of this was my attendance at a Dahn Yoga center near my house.  It's different than any yoga I've heard of - kind of a Korean version of yoga including reiki and martial arts and Tai Chi and other assorted bizzareness - but it makes me feel really good, even if it is really expensive.  Anyhow, they told me that I have depression because I have "too much energy" in my head and that I spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.  That rang uncomfortably true to me, so I decided to stop thinking so much about my writing, at least when it comes to comment_fics and just DO it.  So below are links to me just having fun with my writing.  I won't be posting these little snippets to my LJ, but I will post links to them here if anyone is interested.  They're archived over at the Pit, here:

Alec, working undercover

Max/Alec, learning to trust

Max/Alec, kiss it and make it better

Also, less than a month before Supernatural premieres!!! OMG how did that happen? 

I've been reduced to trolling the Pit (ff.net) for Dark Angel fics. 

It is a scary, scary place, my friends.  But I have girded my loins and waded into battle.

Who the hell ever thought up SONGFIC??? It's completely and utterly WRETCHED!!!  Also, my favorite of the many atrocities I have encountered at the Pit:

Dear 14 year old girl who has apparently just written your first fanfic ever:  There is no such term as atom's apple.  It's Adam's apple.  Please to be investing in a dictionary.  Then peruse it upon occasion.  K?

Also, I feel dirty because for some reason everyone over at spnstoryfinders was looking for Sam and angels ficcies tonight so of course I pimped the HELL out of my fics Day of the Dead and The Watchman, which were both written before Season 4.  I am, of course, hoping for some gushing reviews about how wonderful they are.  Because it's been the kind of day in which I just might have thrown myself in front of a mac truck, if for some reason one had been barreling down my quiet suburban street. 

I'm better now.  Really.  I only twitch and spontaneously scream out "atom's apple" every two hours or so instead of every fifteen minutes.

Oh, man, my trip was AWESOME.  The Eastern Sierras in CA are lovely - high chaparral, very sparsely populated, wide open and empty.  My kinda place.  Being on horseback for 4 days was nowhere near as physically grueling as I expected it to be, although we were both a little sore in the pants.  LOL.  The weather was wild - snow, rain, and hail EVERY day.  But as corny as it sounds, it was more of an adventure that way.  We never did end up finding any wild mustangs - they fled the storm in the opposite direction - but we did find their tracks and manure piles and as strange as it sounds Bran and I didn't really care.  It was just so amazing to be out in that country on horseback the whole time. 

In camp, we had someone to cook and clean for us, and lend Bran his $700 high altitude jacket when she was freezing.  We found obsidian arrowheads, saw cougar tracks, a snake, and one measly little mule deer.  I don't have all my pics back yet, but here are a few behind the cut.  I didn't include one of myself because all the ones I have make me look like a scary Russian peasant woman, complete with horrid babushka.  Bran and I look a lot alike, with the caveat that I'm older, fatter, and not as pretty.  :-)



In other news, I'm off work for another week because of my health "issue", which would be great if #1 I felt better and #2 I was actually getting paid for the time off.  Oh well, such is life.  Still, I am grateful to be able to enjoy my home, various critters, and my INTERNET CONNECTION in the meantime.   And since the amplificathon ends on Monday, I'll be able to record a few more!  Because, you know, the world can never have enough of my blatherings ...

Last but not least, clicky here for a FREE album by Empires.  It rocks.  :-)

This is likely to piss off some of you on the flist (sorry, but I gotta be me!), but I agree with this about the whole misogyny broo-haha going on right now.  Although I would have left the whole STFU out of it had I written it.  I could go on and on about the pendulum of social change swinging too far one way and then too far the other, but instead, how about if we talk about ....

SCRABBLE!  Yes, I am a geek who loves this game.  It might possibly have to do with the fact that I'm an editor in RL.  Anyhoo - a friend introduced me to a great website where you can play via email.  You get an email notification when the other player has entered a word, click on the link and you make your move.  So you don't have to play in real time, but whenever you have the time.  Anyone???

... or something like that.  So, I'm supposed to be kicking my own butt into working on my book proposal.  Am I actually doing that?  No, I'm doing something VASTLY more important.  Blathering.  So, here goes ...

Google is my LOVE.  Why, you may ask?  Because, I've been thinking about what song to put on the podfic for my story Day of the Dead
which has a Southwestern, Hispanic feel to it, mainly because it's set in my hometown of Globe, AZ.  Globe is rather underwhelming, but it does have DAMN good Mexican food.  It also happens to have my daughter and various other family members in it. 

Anyhow.

I remembered a song that I liked by a local band that a friend was sure would hit it big.  Well, they never did, but they did get some airplay for their song, which had a decidedly Latino sound to it.  This was back in the 90's.  Perfect song for this podfic.  One small problem.  I didn't know the name of the band nor the name of the song.  I did remember that the friend who loved them used to listen to lots of bands at a local joint called Long Wong's (torn down a few years ago). So I googled "Arizona bands 90's alternative rock Long Wong's", and I FOUND IT!!!!  Then I previewed their songs on Amazon and FOUND the song that existed only in the dim recesses of my memory.  Of course I immediately bought the mp3 album and have been playing it.  So, the point of all this?  What, you expected there to be one??  Oh, yeah:

Google
The Internet              =            WIN
Amazon

Since I actually remember a time before the personal computer and the Internet.

The band is the Pistoleros who put out a couple of albums and then changed their name.  Here's the song I'm obsessed with:  My Guardian Angel.  They sound a lot like the Gin Blossoms, which was another Arizona band, btw.

And also, I drool when I see my Cassie/Dean kissing icon.  Yes, I am one of the three fangirls who actually LIKED Cassie and Dean. 

Okay, so now I need to get back to Neolithic graveyards.  I'll blather about Ironman tomorrow, since it has provoked me to DEEP THINKING. 

Okay, so I'm supposed to be working on the script that dysonrules and I are laboring through.  Instead, I'm procrastinating by cleaning my desk, ripping cds to my Zune, stuffing my face with popcorn, just, basically, anything other than working .... Anyhoo, during my desk-cleaning frenzy, I came across a fic that I just had to rec.

the bering strait by moveablehistory. Wincest, R.  Summary: Apparently, a drop of ten degrees celsius in average temperature is really catastrophic. The author says that this was written for vitamin_fic and spn_apocasmut.  It's a gorgeous, vividly detailed, intimate fic. It's only 1000 words, so you can read it quickly.  I think you'll find it impossible to do anything but savor it as you read ... but then again, I am addicted to Arctic survival stories, so bear that in mind. 

Okay, there are TWO freakish happenings I am reporting with this post. 

1. I am MAKING a post that isn't a rec or a story.  I know, I know.  I nearly hyperventilated in horror when I realized what I was about to do.
2. I have actually wrenched myself away from Supernatural watching, Supernatural fanfic reading, Supernatural fanfic writing, and Supernatural fanfic recording long enough to watch another show - The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  Okay, I mainly did this because dysonrules and I are planning on writing some more spec tv scripts and this is a candidate.  But anyhow.  It's a pretty good show.  Not good enough to earn my everlasting devotion like Supernatural, but good enough to DVR and watch when I can zoom through the commercials ... Anyone else into this show?